Adobe drops Flash for Linux, except Chrome

How long until someone cuts Flash out of Chrome and provides the PPAPI for the other browsers? Or better yet, how long until this awful Flash will be a thing of the past and will be replaced by open concepts like HTML5.

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"Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."Seems ok to me. Hopefully more sites have been moved over to HTML5 by that time.

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I think it's really a shame. Not because i think flash is a grat technology, but a web "standard". For new and non-pro linux users, flash is very important. So is for ads companies. Lots of web content is based on flash, and change that to HTML 5 costs money. If flash on linux is poorly supported, it could cause those new and non-pro linux users change their operating systems, and so the companies... Just my thoughts...

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Hyugga wrote:

I think it's really a shame. Not because i think flash is a grat technology, but a web "standard". For new and non-pro linux users, flash is very important. So is for ads companies. Lots of web content is based on flash, and change that to HTML 5 costs money. If flash on linux is poorly supported, it could cause those new and non-pro linux users change their operating systems, and so the companies... Just my thoughts...

No. Companies don't need to change OS for this. They can always use Google Chrome (for Linux). However why should they discontinue providing a standalone plugin. They can provide a standalone plugin which any PPAPI implementing web browser can use (in the future if firefox or webkit based ones support the API). Why restrict it to chrome?

Re: Adobe drops Flash for Linux, except Chrome

No. Companies don't need to change OS for this. They can always use Google Chrome (for Linux). However why should they discontinue providing a standalone plugin. They can provide a standalone plugin which any PPAPI implementing web browser can use (in the future if firefox or webkit based ones support the API). Why restrict it to chrome?

You're right, but i was thinking if half+ of the web is based on flash, there will be tons of linux users (like me) that couldn't see that half+ of the web content or doesn't want to chage their web browser. If linux is a poorly supported flash platform, why invest money on make linux friendly web apps and games?

Besides Mozilla said that they're not interested in support PPAPI right now...

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Re: Adobe drops Flash for Linux, except Chrome

There is something called mudskipper. A very interesting creature. Awesomely interesting. Check it.

That said; considering how big an ecosystem Apple has and how much designing is done on Apples, this is not really bad news. It might be bad, alright, but won't have big effects. The Flash we have will probably be good for 3-4 years easily, and who can claim that Flash will still be going strong years later.

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There's a few interesting things that come to mind with this and one of them is that Google has also managed to corner the NetFlix on Linux market for now. Google is clearly implementing all of the DRM code necessary for HTML5 and Flash, and they're isolating development to their platform. They do have a tendency to let people use things royalty free, but they're not always keen on relinquishing their patents. It will be interesting to see if they patent their work on the DRM code and just let it sit idly by.

Re: Adobe drops Flash for Linux, except Chrome

skottish wrote:

There's a few interesting things that come to mind with this and one of them is that Google has also managed to corner the NetFlix on Linux market for now. Google is clearly implementing all of the DRM code necessary for HTML5 and Flash, and they're isolating development to their platform. They do have a tendency to let people use things royalty free, but they're not always keen on relinquishing their patents. It will be interesting to see if they patent their work on the DRM code and just let it sit idly by.